Methods

Remarks

Message Availability

Not all entity types support this message offline. For some supported entities, this message works regardless whether the caller is connected to the server or offline. For other entities, the caller must be connected to the server before the message works. For more information, see Supported Entities later in this topic.

Usage

Pass an instance of this class to the Execute method, which returns an instance of the DeleteResponse class.

Privileges and Access Rights

To perform this action, the caller must have privileges on the specified entity in the Target property and access rights on the specified record in the Target property. For a list of the required privileges, see Delete message privileges.

Notes for Callers

This message deletes a record and its related records in one transaction. For a less complex method that deletes a single record, use the Delete method.

When a record is deleted, all child records are also deleted. The entire deletion fails if the caller does not have the delete privilege or access rights for any of these records. This method may cascade to related records according to the cascade configuration for each entity relationship. For a description of how actions on a parent record affect related records, see Cascading behavior.

Typically, you should only delete records that you entered by mistake. For some record types, you can deactivate or close the record instead.

Supported Entities

You can use this method to delete any record of an entity (includes custom entities) that supports the DeleteRequest message.

The following table shows the default entities that support this message. For the listed entities of this message, the Availability column shows Server if the caller must be connected to the server and shows Both if the caller can be either connected to, or disconnected from, the server.

Entity

Availability

Account

2 (Both)

ActivityMimeAttachment

2 (Both)

Annotation

2 (Both)

AnnualFiscalCalendar

2 (Both)

Appointment

2 (Both)

AsyncOperation

2 (Both)

AttributeMap

2 (Both)

BulkDeleteOperation

2 (Both)

BulkOperation

2 (Both)

BusinessUnit

2 (Both)

BusinessUnitNewsArticle

2 (Both)

Calendar

2 (Both)

Campaign

2 (Both)

CampaignActivity

2 (Both)

CampaignResponse

2 (Both)

ColumnMapping

2 (Both)

Competitor

2 (Both)

Connection

2 (Both)

ConnectionRole

2 (Both)

ConnectionRoleObjectTypeCode

2 (Both)

ConstraintBasedGroup

2 (Both)

Contact

2 (Both)

Contract

2 (Both)

ContractDetail

2 (Both)

ContractTemplate

2 (Both)

ConvertRule

2 (Both)

ConvertRuleItem

2 (Both)

CustomerAddress

2 (Both)

CustomerOpportunityRole

2 (Both)

CustomerRelationship

2 (Both)

Discount

2 (Both)

DiscountType

2 (Both)

DuplicateRule

2 (Both)

DuplicateRuleCondition

2 (Both)

DynamicProperty

2 (Both)

DynamicPropertyAssociation

2 (Both)

DynamicPropertyInstance

2 (Both)

DynamicPropertyOptionSetItem

2 (Both)

Email

2 (Both)

EmailServerProfile

2 (Both)

Entitlement

2 (Both)

EntitlementChannel

2 (Both)

EntitlementTemplate

2 (Both)

EntitlementTemplateChannel

2 (Both)

Equipment

2 (Both)

ExchangeSyncIdMapping

2 (Both)

Fax

2 (Both)

FieldPermission

2 (Both)

FieldSecurityProfile

2 (Both)

FixedMonthlyFiscalCalendar

2 (Both)

Goal

2 (Both)

GoalRollupQuery

2 (Both)

HierarchyRule

2 (Both)

HierarchySecurityConfiguration

2 (Both)

Import

2 (Both)

ImportEntityMapping

2 (Both)

ImportFile

2 (Both)

ImportJob

2 (Both)

ImportMap

2 (Both)

Incident

2 (Both)

IncidentResolution

2 (Both)

Invoice

2 (Both)

InvoiceDetail

2 (Both)

IsvConfig

2 (Both)

KbArticle

2 (Both)

KbArticleComment

2 (Both)

KbArticleTemplate

2 (Both)

Lead

2 (Both)

Letter

2 (Both)

List

2 (Both)

LookUpMapping

2 (Both)

Mailbox

2 (Both)

MailMergeTemplate

2 (Both)

Metric

2 (Both)

MonthlyFiscalCalendar

2 (Both)

msdyn_PostAlbum

2 (Both)

msdyn_PostConfig

2 (Both)

msdyn_PostRuleConfig

2 (Both)

msdyn_wallsavedquery

2 (Both)

msdyn_wallsavedqueryusersettings

2 (Both)

Opportunity

2 (Both)

OpportunityClose

2 (Both)

OpportunityProduct

2 (Both)

OrderClose

2 (Both)

OwnerMapping

2 (Both)

PhoneCall

2 (Both)

PickListMapping

2 (Both)

PluginAssembly

2 (Both)

PluginType

2 (Both)

Position

2 (Both)

Post

2 (Both)

PostComment

2 (Both)

PostFollow

2 (Both)

PostLike

2 (Both)

PriceLevel

2 (Both)

PrincipalObjectAttributeAccess

2 (Both)

ProcessSession

2 (Both)

ProcessTrigger

2 (Both)

Product

2 (Both)

ProductAssociation

2 (Both)

ProductPriceLevel

2 (Both)

ProductSubstitute

2 (Both)

Publisher

2 (Both)

PublisherAddress

2 (Both)

QuarterlyFiscalCalendar

2 (Both)

Queue

2 (Both)

QueueItem

2 (Both)

Quote

2 (Both)

QuoteClose

2 (Both)

QuoteDetail

2 (Both)

RecurrenceRule

2 (Both)

RecurringAppointmentMaster

2 (Both)

RelationshipRole

2 (Both)

RelationshipRoleMap

2 (Both)

Report

2 (Both)

ReportCategory

2 (Both)

ReportEntity

2 (Both)

ReportVisibility

2 (Both)

ResourceSpec

2 (Both)

Role

2 (Both)

RollupField

2 (Both)

RoutingRule

2 (Both)

RoutingRuleItem

2 (Both)

SalesLiterature

2 (Both)

SalesLiteratureItem

2 (Both)

SalesOrder

2 (Both)

SalesOrderDetail

2 (Both)

SavedQuery

2 (Both)

SavedQueryVisualization

2 (Both)

SdkMessageProcessingStep

2 (Both)

SdkMessageProcessingStepImage

2 (Both)

SdkMessageProcessingStepSecureConfig

2 (Both)

SemiAnnualFiscalCalendar

2 (Both)

Service

2 (Both)

ServiceAppointment

2 (Both)

ServiceEndpoint

2 (Both)

SharePointDocument

2 (Both)

SharePointDocumentLocation

2 (Both)

SharePointSite

2 (Both)

Site

2 (Both)

SLA

2 (Both)

SLAItem

2 (Both)

SLAKPIInstance

2 (Both)

SocialActivity

2 (Both)

SocialInsightsConfiguration

2 (Both)

SocialProfile

2 (Both)

Solution

2 (Both)

Subject

2 (Both)

SystemForm

2 (Both)

Task

2 (Both)

Team

2 (Both)

TeamTemplate

2 (Both)

Template

2 (Both)

Territory

2 (Both)

TraceLog

2 (Both)

TransactionCurrency

2 (Both)

TransformationMapping

2 (Both)

TransformationParameterMapping

2 (Both)

UoM

2 (Both)

UoMSchedule

2 (Both)

UserEntityInstanceData

2 (Both)

UserEntityUISettings

2 (Both)

UserForm

2 (Both)

UserQuery

2 (Both)

UserQueryVisualization

2 (Both)

WebResource

2 (Both)

Workflow

2 (Both)

WorkflowDependency

2 (Both)

WorkflowLog

2 (Both)

Thread Safety

Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.